Dec 15 2016, info@xxxxxxxxxxxx has written: ...
*ALBUM Link: https://soundcloud.com/rated-blue/sets/turnabout
Hi Glenn and band, thank you for sharing your work, especially before the release. It was an honour to listen. :) Honestly, very good recordings. The performance is so tight and spot on! Together with the effects on guitars, bass and vocals this makes a fantastic experience. Before I go on giving your work what its due - namely praise - allow me some criticism of the other kind. Namely the drums: well played, I'm sure well recorded as well, but they mostly don't fit in the mix as homogenously as the rest of the instruments. If that was the intention, then you succeeded. If I had to give reasons for this opinion I'd say, that the snare always sounds a little too roomy and to mono and in the middle, while the guitars and the background vocals can be so distributed in the stereo panorama. The kick sounds too boomy. That might be due to some EQ'ing, but I think my ears take more offense at the compressor and the reverb. Compared to the rather acoustic and organic feeling rest of the mix, the kick's transient sounds so harsh and unnatural. Again in context of the whole mix, the kick is too roomy for my ears. The other instruments have such a close or at least vintage feel, that this doesn't somehow sit. Yes, that's mostly habit. And that may be a very personal thing. :( To end on a positive note, which the album really deserves, the background vocals - especially in STraight Up - sounded just sublime! Really thank you for sharing this with us up front, it was a treat. As much as the songs do form a unity, they are diverse enough to captivate the attention to the last note. If you think it's worth anything to all the band members, give them my regards and my regards. Best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
